October 1, 2008

WOICES - real listening

Woices is a site where people record their impressions of places they are at the moment or places they´ve been to. Unfortunately to EFL teachers, there are very few recordings in English, most of them are in Spanish but I guess as people start using it we´ll have more listening material in English. Once you like an "echo" you can get an embed code for your webpage.

How can we use this site with students?

you can ask students to choose a place in the map, listen to a recording and then talk about it in class.

you can ask students to write about a place they´ve been to and then recordtheir echo at WOICES.

students then can listen to each other echoes and write about the most interesting ones.

Any other ideas?

This is an echo I´ve found about the Galapagos Island (it´s in Spanish).